>> so i mean, i've got to, you know, i've got to -- i know i can do it, it's no problem. now i've just got to put my words into action, and you know, make it happen. >> yes. >> yeah, jay! >> you know you can do it. >> gang members disrupt the housing unit. >> they all feed off each other. one's kicking the door, they all

join in and start screaming. >> when inmates flood their cells, the search team takes action. and they place one in special restraints. [ bleep ] >> -- drop you first! >> i told them in the hallway i could feel an attack was coming on. i feel like i'm going to hurt somebody. >> a female inmate poses a dangerous threat to staff. >> she took as swing at me, scratched my face and it was on. >> she's just like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm. >> we went toe to toe. >> damn! >> when somebody disrespects me or something, we're going to take care of business. >> already facing 16 charges, a gang member picks up 5 more inside the jail. >> you know, everybody thinks that this job that we have is such a gravy job and such an easy job. i challenge anybody to come in here and work this job for a week and see if we're overpaid.

♪ >> from the alamo to its famous river walk, san antonio is one of the most popular tourist destinations in texas. but like any big city, there is a constant fight against crime and the landmark of that battle is just outside downtown. the bexar county jail is a modern-day fortress that houses approximately 3,500 male and female inmates. most have only been charged with crimes and are awaiting trial for the resolution of their cases. >> we are very regulated on how we have to handle inmates. we realize that even though they're incarcerated, they still have rights. we also realize that we're not

here to punish or to convict anyone. it's just to hold them. >> but in jail, holding inmates is never a simple proposition, especially when they don't want to be held. >> a lot of the gang members, because they're secured in the cell for 23 hours a day, they've got all that time to, you know, think of different games they can play with the officers. because they're trying to create a reputation for themselves that they're not to be messed with. >> i'm easy to get along with, but once somebody disrespects me or something, we're going to take care of business. >> jose hidalgo is a member of what efficiency describe is the fastes growing and most notorious gang in the jail, but hidalgo describes the gang as

more of a femllowship. >> they're in prison on the make sure the home boys make it safe back to our families and to make sure if one of our home boys need something, we're going to be there. >> since the age of 14, hidalgo has spent most of his life incarcerated. he's been in jail for the past three years charged with 16 crimes. >> i've got an ag robbery, evading a race, possession, daily conducts, dwi, assault, bodily injury. i've got my whole list in my cell. >> hidalgo has pleaded not guilty pleas on all his charges. he also plans to plead not guilty to the five new criminal charges he picked up in the jail. >> two assaults and two arsons. i picked up one last week they i'm awaiting to get indicted on that. >> what'd you get indicted with last week? >> assault. >> his latest assault on staff occurred after a rare period of good behavior. >> most of the time inmate hidalgo has been in our facility, he's been housed and

ground alone, because we found that when we house him and group him with other inmates, he tends to rub off on those inmates. and instead of dealing with one hidalgo, now we're dealing with many of them. however, recently over the past few months, he's been out of trouble, he's been cooperative, he's been behaving, and one thing that he requested because he's been behaving is a cellmate. and after careful review, we allowed him to have a correlkrc >> his cell mate is waiting to transfer to prison to serve a five-year sentence. >> i roll pretty good but hang around with wrong people. i guess a good kid went wrong, huh? >> on the second day guerrero and hidalgo were housed with each other, the two inmates quickly showed up on staff's radar. >> hidalgo and his cellmate, guerrero were disruptive across

the day. and when we did chow later, guerrero apparently stuck his arm out the tray slot, wouldn't bring it back in so that we could close it. >> after the meal service, the corporal and his partner decided to check the cell for contraband. >> and about the time the door opened, i don't remember who was on which bunk, but hidalgo and guerrero both stood up and they came towards the door and they stood side by side, creating a barrier. >> wanted to search the cell, and we ain't trying to let him in. >> so, we're like, hey, you know, we want to come in and it's nothing special, we want to search for contraband, and they were like, no, you can't come in here. >> they say get against the wall, for what? they say we're going to shake you down, and we're like, no, you're not going to shake you down. >> and i realized there's something in the cell. then i realized, no, this is it there's going to be a fight. >> as his partner who requested immunity tried to cross.

>> idalgo hit him with his right hand. >> i defended myself. i went off on him, we were fighting. >> the officer was on the floor repeatedly hitting my cellie. >> it was here -- >> guerrero then jumped on the officer's back. >> took me in a choke hold with the right and was banging on my head with his left. >> officer lighty came in at his defense. >> i came in, grabbed guerrero with my arms and tried to pull him off, but a sat there for a few minutes wrestling with him. >> while he's trying to restraining me, i'm getting at the other lawman, trying to get him off my cellie, my home boy, and blood everywhere. >> officers inside the housing unit security control room witnessed the fight and alerted the special emergency response team or sert. >> sert team arrives, they secure inmate hidalgo. >> they came and dropped their knee on me, split my chin, which caused me to take stitches. the blood's coming out, so i'm laying in my blood. so, when i get up and come out,

one of my other home boys seen it. >> as hidalgo and guerrero were escorted by the sert team to medical, another gang member, jeremy gonzalez, witnessed the procession. >> i seen him that he was bloodied, and being that's my home boy, like, i been known him for a long time and we've been through a lot and i wasn't just going to let it ride, you know what i'm saying? i let my anger kind of get the best of me, too, and popped my door, ran out through it with the shank. >> inmate gonzalez apparently was able to defeat the locking device, open the cell door, and he ran out of the cell and was holding a 7-inch piece of metal. >> it was made out of the top blade of a squeegee. >> unfortunately for gonzalez, by the time he figured out how to pop the lock on his door, hidalgo, guerrero and the sert team had already left the unit. >> he came running out into the day room because he thought everyone was still here

fighting. he got to about right about here and then he realized that, you know, he was a day late for the party. >> there was four laws down there, a sergeant, a lieutenant, corporal, and regular officer. >> and he started to get real nervous, because you know, he had no backup, he's over there with a weapon in a secured facility. >> with gonzalez already out-numbered four to one, members of the sert team escorting hidalgo and guerrero are called back to assist. >> go. >> i'm not stupid, you know. just laid down, threw the shank away from me, get it over real quick. >> he threw the knife on the ground, not at the officer. it was very clearly, gently thrown to the ground, and then he laid down on the floor and we secured him. >> luckily, nobody was hurt in the process. what does scare us is that he did have that shank, and what that scares us is what would have happened if he was close enough to use it before an

officer would have saw it? you know, it could have just as easily have gone bad as it did good. >> all three inmates involved in the incident were moved to single-man cells and were given new felony charges. for gonzalez, the new charge can carry especially serious consequences. he is awaiting trial on a murder charge. he has pled not guilty. >> i just wish i wouldn't have done that, because it's going to be like a domino effect with my other case, you know. just that little case right there is going to get me bad. they're going to be seeing me as like a threat to society coming out with shanks in jail, you know what i mean? so, that's probably going to, it's going to sting me, you know what i mean? coming up, backed up toilets flood a housing unit. and jeremi gonzalez faces off with a special response team. >> stop resisting. >> i ain't [ bleep ] resisting! my [ bleep ] arm's stuck, you dumb [ bleep ]! >> but first.

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♪ knowing that some of their peers have less than ideal hygiene, many inmates at san antonio's bexar county jail do all they can to make their selves as sanitary as possible, especially raymond diaz. >> you'd be surprised, but probably 75% of the people who go to prison leave with bad hygiene habits. could you imagine the opposite? >> diaz, awaiting trial and has pledded not guilty to charges of theft, burglary and cocaine possession, says cleanliness or lack of it can also lead to conflict. >> that's a big part of being locked up. there's people who get dropped, beat up because they don't keep things clean. >> diaz's cellmate, marcello o

cardenez, likes it, too. >> he jokes that i have obsessive-compulsive disorder, but -- >> which is fine for me, right? >> well, i'm not a germophobe, but being in prison can make some people able. that's why we keep the shirt there to keep all the dust out, because when people walk by it blows dust and hair and all that. for all the people that think we live in filth, on the contrary. we probably have a cleaner cell than most people's houses. >> while the jail lets most inmates use cleaning supplies, others, like erica haywood, are only given the bare minimum. >> she's only getting some pine, which is very little, about the a mixture with water and two sanitary napkins to be able to clean herself. haywood, here you go. let me know when you're done, all right? >> it's just a yellow cleaning

solution they give us, and i just basically put it on the floor. i use it for my mattress and toilet. they won't give me the broom because i had an incident last week with one of the guards, and we got into, like, a confrontation. so now they won't give me the broom. >> we used to give her brooms and all that stuff, and last week she decided she was going to try to jab an officer through the tray slot with the broom. >> in the three months she's been at bexar county, haywood has been cited several times for fighting with staff and other inmates. now she is housed in a high-security female administrative segregation unit, where she is confined to a single-person cell 23 hours a day. it is often a noisy, disruptive unit. >> some of them are very hostile, some of them are very aggressive. we do have to be very careful, because at one moment to another, they could just snap at you. >> haywood has done time at the jail on prior convictions. her latest arrest came after a

fight with a bank security guard who had ordered her to get off the telephone. >> if he had just approached me differently, i probably wouldn't have done that, but he was embarrassing me in front of the whole bank. so, we started going off at each other. he's in my face, i'm in his face. he reached in for me to grab me, bam, i got him. i took him down. i had a mechanical pit bull. i'm like, if you move, i'm going to poke your eye out. >> haywood has yet to be tried on the resulting charge of aggravated result with bodily yesterday but plans to plead not guilty on grounds of self-defense, but she admits her item per is hard to control. >> you start to feel yourself start bubbling up, boiling inside of you like you're going to explode. and you tell yourself you can control it. you tell yourself, i can control it, i'm not going to hurt nobody, but when it actually comes time to do, it's like, bam! you just hit somebody. it's like a reflex. they might say one wrong word to

you, bam, you hit him. >> this officer was also a victim of haywood's temper. >> the day erica assaulted he, i was just do my observation rounds and passing out mail like i would normally do. >> i told them in the hallway i could feel the anxiety coming on. i knew an attack was coming on. i feel like i'm going to hurt somebody. >> erica was out of her day room, and at that time, he was only wearing leg guards. her hands were completely free. >> here's the laiding passing our mail. i confront the lady, like why are you trying to play me and this and that, this and that? and she's just looking at me like mm-hmm, mm-hmm. >> she took a swing at me, she scratched my face, and it was on. we went toe to toe. i did punch her in the face. i punched her body. all i wanted her to do was stop charging me, because she continued to charge me. >> and then i started getting her back. i started fighting her back.

next thing i know, here come the sert team. >> i was able to move out of the way, because all i saw was a sert officer with a taser, and they tased her. >> they shot me. i had a probe, like a long stream with a pen, it looked like a dart, stuck into my body. get off me. they got me mostly in the shoulder area, i think, and i could just feel myself going off. >> stop resisting, haywood. >> because the pain is so excruciating, all you can do is just take that pain, take their pain, take their pain. who the one who shot me? who shot me? my family taught me, do not let people disrespect you. we're just like that we're very reactive people. this is the way i grow up. so people look at that like she's violent, she's this, she's that. i'm like, i'm nowhere near what my family has raised me to be, and they have no idea. [ bleep ]

i'm mild, very mild compared to some people. get your mama, go [ bleep ]. coming up -- >> i threw some bodily fluids and things out, bodily products. >> erica haywood adds a new weapon to her arsenal. and -- >> i was patting him down, down his crotch area and i felt a bulge. a catch like this is pretty rare. >> the ongoing battle to stop the illegal tattoo trade inside the jail fijit friends. fifteen bucks on rollback. wow! that's a savings of over 29 bucks! twenty-nine bucks!!?? and they're powered by friendship. see for yourself if you could save on the brands you want. walmart. every human being is unique. and there is one store that recognizes it. the sleep number store. the only place in the world you'll find the extraordinarily comfortable sleep number experience. an exclusive collection of innovations that totally

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as in other correctional facilities, tattooing is not allowed at the bexar county jail in san antonio. violators could get up to 60 days in segregation or even face additional criminal charges. but the demand for tattoos on the inside is so great, there are always inmate tattoo artists willing to take the risk for a payout of commissary goods or other forms of compensation. they make ingenious tattoo guns

by assembling the parts of other items they are permitted to possess, and staff are constantly on the lookout for them. >> i was padding him down, went down his crotch area and i felt, you know, the bulge. it's not that huge of a bulge, and asked him what it is. just pulled it up, opened it up and tattooer. catch like this is pretty rare. >> that's a good catch, man. >> this right here is from the inside of a light, it's a staple. this right here is that same copper wire that came from inside of the hair tippers and two checkers yeers pieces to ho together. these guys know what they're doing. >> another inmate, marcello card cardenas, has a reputation for high-quality tattoo guns. >> i sell it for $25, $30 in this county right here. >> because he is due to leave the jail any day now to start his six-year prison sentence for assault, cardenas agreed to demonstrate how it's done.

>> so, right now it's not like i really care about it. if they wrote me up, i'm going to leave before they do the punishment or they reprimand on me. >> cardenas starts with some wire scabbage from some electric hair clippers. >> we rub the wire like this here. >> he winds the wire around a screw to make a crude electromagnet, but he also needs a magnet pilfered from a phone or telecom speaker. >> so, the magnet, when you put it on top of the screw, it bounce with the cycles of electricity, it bounce like this. >> the needle is made from a staple attached to a q-tip shaft. >> and you use the strings to tie it up. that's pretty much how you do it. the magnet, when it bounce, you push the needle. i don't invent it, but i learn it. >> several other bexar county inmates also make their own tattoo guns or rakes, and the

source of their knowledge could very well spring from just one man, jose hidalgo. >> early on in his inkaras vacati inkaraseration, he was teaching the other inmates how to create the rigs, how to do the tattoos, and as a result, they were destroying county property. >> once you're in the cell 23 hours a day, we get creative. breaking lights to get the wire. burning grease to make the ink. >> even though we pulled him out, the knowledge he gave them on making the rigs is something we're combating today because inmates are constantly making rigs and they're constantly tearing apart the light fixtures, and this is something that he started. >> hidalgo has also been on the receiving end of the jailhouse tattoo trade. >> when inmate hidalgo first came into the facility, he didn't have anywhere near as many tattoos as he has now. most of the tal tattoos he has received, he received within our facility and he's very proud of his tattoos.

>> above my eyebrows, i was raised in the hood, so that's the reason for that. it's the zip code, 78327. i've got san antonio. i'm a player, so that's why i got that. i've got a female, i've got like money. >> hidalgo's underarms display the initials of his gang, tango oro, and on his abdomen is the image of a glock .40-millimeter handgun, which he says is the favored weapon of drug dealers. >> crack-cocaine announced on the scale, my own choice. it's basically when you're selling drugs, you can't trust nobody. even when you do, they're the ones that end up snitching on you. >> although hidalgo is proud of his extensive body art, he's starting to worry about how a judge and jury will react to it. he's set to begin a series of trials on a litany of charges,

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♪ you may take a seat. >> despite staff's best efforts to stop them, some inmates at san antonio's bexar county jail, still find ways to illegally tattoo each other. but if staff can't catch every tattoo, they can at least document them and add them to their intelligence database. >> tattoos are the most common non a verbal forms of identification in identifying gang affiliation. gang members love to put their gang somewhere visibly on their body so rival gang members or their own gang members can identify them as are they friend or foe. let me see your tattoos. >> what have you got? >> and we train all our classes

to identify these and if they can't get the gang members to self-admit, we look at them. aside from the tattoos, we'll look at their history in the facility. do they have a history of gang-related activity? strong-arming in the units, group assaults, things of that kind of nature. in conjunction with their tattoos and that history, we can go ahead and establish whether or not we think the guy's a gang member. ♪ >> raymond diaz is up front about his gang-related tattoos. >> the stuff i've got on me, a lot of it's gang-related. they call them like stamps, you know. everything was done behind bars with the staple. we don't use fancy needles and all that. the main part of my chest is the blast, and that's for dongo blast. it's probably one of the biggest prison gangs in texas. i chose to put it in big letters on my chest because when i get to a prison unit or pod or something, first thing i do is take off my shirt and it's clearly visible. if someone has a problem with me, they're going to let it be

known. >> diaz is also a tattoo artist and says he's applied many of his tattoos himself. most are gang-related, but one is a fan tribute. >> which is my taylor swift. she's -- i did her for my own personal gratification. i don't know what it is about her, but the first time i ever heard her voice, i was locked up and i would listen to her music, and she's got like this really cute country voice. it soothed me. like, no matter what's going on, there might be fights, chaos, you know, the building could be burning down, but if i'm listening to taylor swift, i'm relaxed. >> but it seems no melody can quiet the outbursts that punctuate life in the administration segregation unit, which houses members of the jail's largest gang. >> usually they'll cause a disruption if they're upset or if they just want to gain attention. mostly they all feed off each

other. one's kicking the door, they all join in and start screaming. >> some days it's worse than others. they're young, rambunctious, they have nothing better to do, so that's the way they make their noise. you know, everybody thinks that this job we have is such a gravy job and such an easy job. i challenge anybody come in here, work this job for a week and see if we're overpaid. >> serge. >> later in the day, a disturbance escalates when one of the inmates starts flooding the unit. >> guy in 12 cell started flooding his cell. i asked him why, he said just for no reason. he's notorious for doing stuff like that. >> the inmate is well known to staff, jeremy gonzalez. besides facing charges of murder and aggravated assault, gonzalez just picked up another felony charge after confronting jail

officers with a 7-inch-long shank. since arriving at bexar county, he has been sanctioned for several other infractions as well. >> i was trying to do good. i've been doing good for like six months straight. i've been trying to chill to get my visits back and get back to my family. you go through a depression mode and then you go through getting aggravated and it messes with your head, you know what i mean? i couldn't take any more. >> within minutes, two other inmates add to the fray. >> here we go! >> there's going to be a waterfall! >> they're utilizing the uniforms, whatever material they can find by stuffing down the toilet drain and continuously flushing the toilets and causing it to overflow just be belligerent and disruptive. >> nothing else to do in here. >> gonzalez's friend jose hidalgo says he is not impressed by his actions and that such behavior is now looked down upon by the gang. >> and they know we don't do that [ bleep ] no more. they know we don't do that.

ears a we're all back here now. >> the special emergency response team, or sert, is mobilized to restrain the trouble-makers. >> the sert team was called in to do the flooding. it came in and triggered the alarm, and the system was activated. they will put them in hand restraints due to their disruptive behavior, not to harm themselves and/or anybody else. >> the team begins with gonzalez, who submits to their orders but not quietly. >> anyone who is shackled could be in there for one to two hours and be medically evaluated every 30 minutes by a medical staff. >> all right. >> analyze them medically, see if there's any cramping, anything that's any injury towards the inmate himself.

>> before long, the sert team has restrained two other pairs of cellmates also involved in the flooding. >> see how they do it now. >> just when officers think they have the situation under control, gonzalez managed to slip his hands out from behind him. >> this is too easy. >> he's got them out in front. >> put him in the restraint chair. >> the sert team decides it's time to deploy the restraint chair, designed to testimompora immobilize inmates that pose a threat. >> roll over on your mattress, onto your chest. inmate to comply. you got it? >> as the sert team enters the

cell, gonzalez launch as a verbal assault. [ bleep ] >> i'm going to see, dog. y'all gonna see. mark my words! mark my [ bleep ] words! >> note that he's threatening, remarks and other words. he's got a hit on him. [ bleep ] >> don't faze me, dog. you'd better hope i don't get out of jail and see you out in that world. i'll start swinging on y'all, beat your ass. you ain't kidding with all that [ bleep ] drop you first! [ bleep ] >> the position -- >> i know, you've got my [ bleep ] arm stuck, you [ bleep ]. >> only when gonzalez feels a taser gun pressed against his back does he finally give in.

>> he's secure. >> gonzalez will stay in the chair until he calms down or up to a maximum of two hours. >> two hours? after that, what's going to happen next? i'll still do the same [ bleep ]. come on, man. >> come on, man. ain't gonna stop nobody. for a couple hours, yeah, but not for life. i'm still going to do it again and keep doing it. coming up -- >> this is one of the things we use to hide the tattoo guns. >> the measures inmates use to hide the tattoo paraphernalia. >> and -- >> she'll take her feces and roll it into a ball and throw it underneath, which actually rolls into the other cell. >> erica haywood's disturbing

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managing the sprawling urban correctional facility like san antonio's bexar county jail is a task full of challenges. from inmates acting up to dealing with gangs and an elicit tattoo trade, officers are constantly put to the test. >> these inmates in here do have time to study. they know almost everything about your job. they know exactly when you're coming, they know exactly what you're looking for. inmates that are actually doing a tattoo, they'll stop what

they're doing, they'll put away everything, all in most of the time within 20 seconds. they have time to actually hide their tattoo rigs, their ink, they will hide it on top of the light fixture, under the stairs as well, in a toilet. they will find any little small opening that they know you won't find, and they will put all of their contraband in there. >> hiding anything in jail, where every area is subject to inspection at any time, takes determination and creativity. just ask marcello cardenas. >> this is one of the spot that we use for to hide the guns, the tattoo guns. i'm just right now making one. >> cardenas, who is sharing his secrets because he is soon leaving for state prison and says he is not worried about punishment, has a clever technique for hiding his homemade tattoo guns. the process begins with another piece of contraband, a box

hinge. >> this is one tool that we use to break the wall in right here. you scratch it. >> in this case, since the hole is still small, cardenas demonstrates how he uses a bar of soap to conceal one of the magnets used in the guns, rather than the gun itself. >> the thing we do here is we put the magnet inside the hiding spot. we break the soap so you can fix it like however. you have to take more time, but right now i'm just telling you. >> cardenas then gently peels small strips of paint off the wall. >> we peel it off a little bit. >> then he moistens the paint with water. >> because this paint is based on water, so the water make it sticky again, and then you put some paint on top of the soap

like this, but better, you know? so, you move like that little by little, then you have it covered up. it's like a little tunnel to mexico from here. >> while cardenas uses stealth to get around jail rules, erica haywood's disobedience is anything but covert. when managing haywood went from difficult to dangerous, jail officials mandated new precautions to prevent further violence. >> it came down that after that assault that happened with me and erica, they now need to have the sert team take her to recreation and bring her right back, just in case she tries to assault somebody else. >> now she is only allowed to leave her cell under heavy security. haywood's assault on officer

lara came after haywood claimed to be having an affair with a male officer, a charge the officer and his co-workers emphatically deny. >> erica does not have a romantic relationship with an officer. all she does is write letters to him and causes him stress. >> officer lara believes jealousy drove haywood to attack. >> she started making these delegations -- you want to take my man, you want to take my man. i said, no, erica. >> haywood's erratic behavior prompted jail officials to order an in-depth psychological evaluation. the results proved her to be mentally competent. >> i stayed inside the hospital for two weeks and they were like, why are you here? you're not incompetent. >> she tries to be the victim all the time. if something happens to her, she's like, oh, they did this to me. i believe erica is just, she's one of those mean people. she's not mental, she's just mean. >> stripped of her privileges and required to move about under heavy guard, haywood has

continued her campaign against staff using the only weapons she has left. >> when i protest, because they were not picking my trash up, they weren't picking my trays up, i threw some bodily fluids and things, bodily products. >> she started gassing officers, and basically, gassing is when you take your urine and your feces, you mix it up into a little cup and let it sit between a couple hours and a couple days. and once the officer comes to retrieve your tray or whatever it is they're going to get from the tray slot, she threw it out. that happened last week, where it got completely on the right side of the officer. and as far as these inmates go, we don't know what kind of diseases they have, and all that body fluid carries it. >> haywood's latest instances with bodily fluids have gotten her attention from the segregation unit. >> she take it and roll it underneath, which rolls into the other cell. >> she would aim it at doors.

she aimed it at 15's door, my door, number 8's door, but it's, you know -- when you make her mad, she knows that we don't like [ bleep ], of course, so she'll try to throw it at our door. >> as disgusting as the barrage might be, haywood's neighbors take it in stride. they've even developed mitigation strategies. >> she actually started getting nice about it. she would warn us before she's going to do it. she'll be like, okay, what do you say, haywood? >> y'all get ready. >> yeah. better put your so i'll get this, right here, and i'll put it like this on the bottom. and i barricaded it in there. you know what i mean? so i got to barricade this on the bottom of my door so she can't throw [bleep] in here. one time, i got real mad because she throw a meat ball and i thought it was a piece of [bleep] and my friend said don't worry about it, it wasn't a piece of [bleep], it was a meat ball. but it looked like a little balled up toured.

it went right under my bed. oh, i was mad. >> heywood's reasons for doing what she does cover a wide range of mistreatments in the jail. >> the lady brought me a tray and some of the food was missing off of the tray. the food was cold. it's the crap they feed us. so we've got lunch. >> she's never responsible for what she does. and every time that we try to put, like, blame on her, this is what you did, this is why the consequences, she's, like, oh, no, you triggered it. it's your fault that i am behaving this way. >> she's just something else. for real. >> i chose this life. >> the true cost of jose hidalgo's life choices. >> i mean, i'm still here for him because he is my son. but people grow up. and people change. and i hope my son will change. ye something very interesting in common.

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>> narrator: jose hidalgo is getting ready for a big day. for the nearly three years he's been in jail, hidalgo has only seen himself get into deeper trouble. but he's maintained strong support from his family. and, today, his mother and grandmother have arrived to visit him. >> i visit him as much as i could. maybe every week, every two weeks. and it takes maybe four to five hours to even see him. >> he is one of the inmates that has to be walked with. >> narrator: hidalgo also gets

financial support from his family. they deposit money which he can use to purchase snacks or toiletries from the jail commissary. >> if it wasn't for them, i'd be struggling, too. >> thank you. >> my mom, she only speaks spanish. so when we come here to visit him, we talk to him in both of our languages. but she is alms there for him. she loves him very much. >> hidalgo? >> crystal's debbie? we went yesterday.

>> narrator: hidalgo's mother worries about the extensive time her son might have to serve. he's recently added five new felony charges. >> he's always getting in trouble because he gets mad and frustrated just being locked up. it worries me because it seems like charges are never going to stop. >> hidalgo now has a trial dalt for his most serious charge. aggravated robbery. he recently turned down a plea bargain for 25 years. but losing in court could result in a much longer sentence. >> i'm just praying that everything is going to be okay. >> no, if i beat that one charge, i've still got to wait for the other charges. >> now that he's had all of these cases, sometimes i feel like he's never going to come out. i'm still here for him because he is my son. but i hope one of these days, he's going to change his life.

people grow up and change. and i hope my son is going to change. >> this is the last i told, i guess. this is not the life i would choose for anyone. right now, i'm going to see what happens to me. and that's pretty much it. >> narrator: hidalgo's friend is in the intensive unit after he burst out of his cell with a 7-inch shank and then flooded his housing unit. his murder trial has been postponed. and in the meantime he has limited his contact with family because it's just too hard to deal with. he breaks my head. what do you need? i ain't going to be there for a while, you know what i mean? >> despite his efforts to avoid thinking about family, a reminder has just arrived by way of today's mail.

>> i got this letter from my little sister: she's 12 years olt: she's real smart. she gets straight as. >> hi, brother. how have you been? i've been good. just working hard in school. i want to see you, but every time you go on restriction. i love you, brother, for being good. write back. since sincerely, your sister. >> oir, man. >> she shouldn't have to be worrying about me. all of my family are stressed out about the time i'm looking at and what's going to happen. i hate to say it, but i try